There is scarcely any other word in the New Testamant more frequently used than this word 'witness', to express what the Christian has to be and do.
A witness - one who has direct knowledge; a witness - one who has personal experience; a witness - one who speaks and lives with the knowledge of experience, truthfully, frankly, fearlessly always.
"THou shalt be his witness". Where? "Unto all men" And the power of this is incalculable. The power of personal testimony is a power to ourselves As we tell the story of what God has been to us through all the years, our own faith will be strengthened, our confidence rooted and grounded in Christ; and in spite of all temptations to doubt and despair, we shall look up to Him and say.....
"Who so beset him round, with dismal stories.
Do but themselves confound, his strength the more is.
There's no discouragement, shall make him once relent,
his first avowed intent, to be a Pilgrim".
And the power of it to others It is an unanswerable argument for Christianity, the testiminy of personal experience, with the heart filled with the love of Christ, the mind saturated with the teachings of Christ, the conscience sensitive to the law of Christ, the whole nature aglow with the grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So it is for us to know, to see, to hear, and then to show. Are we doing this? Do we let our light so shine that men may see, not us, but our Father in heaven?
God Bless all who read
A witness - one who has direct knowledge; a witness - one who has personal experience; a witness - one who speaks and lives with the knowledge of experience, truthfully, frankly, fearlessly always.
"THou shalt be his witness". Where? "Unto all men" And the power of this is incalculable. The power of personal testimony is a power to ourselves As we tell the story of what God has been to us through all the years, our own faith will be strengthened, our confidence rooted and grounded in Christ; and in spite of all temptations to doubt and despair, we shall look up to Him and say.....
"Who so beset him round, with dismal stories.
Do but themselves confound, his strength the more is.
There's no discouragement, shall make him once relent,
his first avowed intent, to be a Pilgrim".
And the power of it to others It is an unanswerable argument for Christianity, the testiminy of personal experience, with the heart filled with the love of Christ, the mind saturated with the teachings of Christ, the conscience sensitive to the law of Christ, the whole nature aglow with the grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So it is for us to know, to see, to hear, and then to show. Are we doing this? Do we let our light so shine that men may see, not us, but our Father in heaven?
God Bless all who read
